Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four royal nurses?Purdie (English), Gordon (Scotch), Black (Irish) and Davies (Welsh)?were paid weekly from five to eight pounds apiece ($24-$38), and will receive from His Majesty personally "a substantial gift" according to an announcement last week at Buckingham Palace. About £3,000 ($14,580) was spent to install the special anti-fog machinery which purified the air in George V's bed- room (TIME, Dec. 17), and was considered indispensable in saving his life. To set up a special pharmacy in the Palace and keep it staffed day and night with the most expert drug...
...least 1,000,000 extra votes. A sadder if not wiser voter was Crown Prince Umberto of Savoy. There is every reason to believe the stories that H. R. H. detests Commoner Mussolini and once challenged him to duel over what he deemed a point of honor to the Royal House. The disgruntled Prince, recently promoted to the rank of Colonel and stationed in Turin, balloted morosely in company with his brother officers. Of the 9,650,570 males qualified to vote (females having no franchise), 8,506,576 voted as II Duce wished, only 999,830 stayed at home...
...site of New Towne, now known as Cambridge, was selected in the early summer of 1630 by a little group of Puritans under John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley. These zealous people, just arrived from England, formed the nucleus of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and proudly carried the royal charter for their new settlement. The party divided, however, and Winthrop with his following removed to Boston, while Dudley remained in Cambridge with his supporters. Where the new gym is to rise was one of the first settled portions of the little village...
...Royal was the welcome extended to Royal Belgians last week in Manhattan. Prince Albert de Ligne and his Ambassadorial staff met them at the pier, took them to City Hall where Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...
...most startling deed was the placing of a dollar sign in stone above the bridal door of fashionable St. Thomas's Church in Manhattan. Last week, in Manhattan's Chapel of the Intercession, which he also designed, Architect Goodhue's memorial tomb was dedicated. Art Critic Royal Cortissoz of Manhattan and Architect Milton Bennett Medary of Philadelphia spoke. Musicians from the Philharmonic-Symphony played...